scholarly journals Complex Governance for the Anthropocene

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Philippe Le Prestre
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Core ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
International Environmental Politics ◽  
The Impact

The Anthropocene presents formidable governance challenges, not only in terms of the large uncertainties that surround the impact of humans on the biosphere, but also because it is occurring at a time of profound transformations in international politics. This article builds on the recent literature on complex systems and international environmental politics and identifies some of the core elements of thinking about governance in the Anthropocene. After a brief reminder of the characteristics of a complex system and the challenges that this poses to some of the existing doxa, it proceeds with a discussion of key elements of the system, of aspects of its operation, and of the goals that one should pursue in terms of system dynamics. Approaching the governance of the Anthropocene as a complex system allows us to shape much of current research in IR into a coherent whole, as well as identify the contours of a global international governance system of the environment that takes advantage of the dynamics of the system rather than courting failure by attempting to simplify it.

Prisoners and their children: An innovative model of ‘whole family’ support

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Clancy ◽  
Mike Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Emotional Stress ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Core ◽  
Family Approach ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Impact

The article reports key findings from an evaluation of ‘Invisible Walls Wales’ (IWW), a multi-agency ‘through the gate’ project in HMP Parc, South Wales, based on an innovative model of ‘whole family’ support for prisoners, their children and partners. It provides an overview of previous research on the impact of parental imprisonment on children and families, including financial hardship, emotional stress and risks of ‘intergenerational offending’. It outlines the core elements of the IWW model and the substantial infrastructure of family support facilities in the prison on which it was built. It summarises outcomes of the project for fathers, partners and children, and gives examples of how IWW’s ‘whole family’ approach is influencing policy and practice elsewhere. Reoffending rates are not yet available, but are anticipated to be low. However, the key strength of the project, it is argued, lies in its emphasis on the ‘whole family’ as the main beneficiary, rather than focusing narrowly on rehabilitation of the father.

scholarly journals Indigeneous Public Administration: Melihat Administrasi Publik dari Perspektif Kearifan Lokal (Local Wisdom)

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boni Saputra ◽  
Suripto Suripto ◽  
Yulvia Chrisdiana
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Western Model ◽  
Administrative Practice ◽  
Core Study ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTGlobal transformation is always demands a good governance system and one of the functions that must be run is public administration’s system.  The impact of powerfull globalization stream, should be anticipated as well as possible.  Public Administration with the values of western modernity that developed today, sometimes make us glare about the progress and forget the values’s identity of local wisdom that we have.  Whereas, Public Administration that appropriate with the local wisdom will be no less great than western Public Administration’s model.  This paper critically discusses the concept of public administration based on local wisdom (Indigenous) and tried to critize the western of public administration’s models which has been predicated in practice and viewed as the core study of contemporary public administration in various country, including Indonesia.  A review and reconstruction of ideas, concepts and theories on Government and Governance.  The main issues is that it is not always the western model administrative practice was able to solve the problem of public administration and was successfully implemented in various regions in responding the local culture.Keywords: Public Administration, Local Wisdom, Indigenious ABSTRAK Transformasi global senantiasa menuntut adanya sistem pemerintahan yang baik (good governance) dan salah satu fungsi yang harus dijalankan adalah sistem administrasi publik. Dampak dari arus globalisasi yang sedemikian kuat, sudah seharusnya diantisipasi sebaik mungkin. Dimana administrasi publik dengan nilai-nilai modernitas model barat (western) yang berkembang saat ini, terkadang membuat kita silau akan kemajuan sehingga melupakan identitas nilai-nilai kearifan lokal yang kita miliki. Padahal administrasi publik yang beridentitas sesuai dengan nilai-nilai kearifan lokal tak akan kalah hebatnya jika dibanding dengan administrasi publik model barat. Paper ini secara kritis mendiskusikan tentang konsep administrasi publik yang berbasis kearifan lokal yang lebih bersifat indigenous dan mencoba mengkritik administrasi publik model barat yang selama ini digadang-gadangkan dalam praktik dan dipandang sebagai core studi dari administrasi publik kontemporer diberbagai negara termasuk di Indonesia. Sebuah pengkajian ulang dan pendeskonstruksian ide, konsep dan teori terhadap Government dan Governance. Thesis utamanya adalah bahwa tidak selamanya praktik administrasi model barat mampu menyelesaikan masalah administrasi publik dan berhasil dilaksanakan diberbagai daerah dalam merespon budaya lokal.Kata Kunci: Administrasi Publik, Kearifan Lokal, Indigenous

The European Credit Transfer System (ECTS): introduction and practical experience at the Technical University of Denmark

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Student Mobility ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Transfer System ◽  
Credit Transfer ◽  
The Core ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Academic Recognition ◽  
The Impact

The objectives and the core elements of the European Course Credit Transfer System (ECTS) are briefly described. ECTS is a tool to manage student mobility as it facilitates transparency, academic recognition, and commitment of the student and involved institutions. The impact on student mobility and teaching after implementation of ECTS at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is reported. The ratio of guest students attending advanced environmental engineering courses at DTU increased from 7 percent of class to almost 50 percent over a three-year period. The number of DTU students studying abroad was also affected by the implementation of ECTS in combination with DTU's additional internationalisation activities. In 1998 DTU achieved balance between the inflow and outflow of students.

CONDITIONALS AT THE CROSSROADS OF CONVERGENT AND DIVERGENT THINKING

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-114
Author(s):  
MARINA KHARATYAN ◽  
LUSIK VARDANYAN
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Divergent Thinking ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Critical And Creative Thinking

MARINA KHARATYAN, LUSIK VARDANYAN - CONDITIONALS AT THE CROSSROADS OF CONVERGENT AND DIVERGENT THINKING The present research is an attempt to emphasize the current necessity in EFL teaching to reevaluate and reconsider the content of grammar on the discourse level through the core elements of critical and creative thinking. We do not seek to give a resourceful explanation to the concept and theory of critical and creative thinking; our foremost concern is to show how the knowledge of these two types of thinking can be linked to and identified in Grammar instruction. Driven by the pursuit of the 21st century learning goals and requirements and the urgent necessity of developing students’ higher order thinking skills, we seek to explore the impact of these two types of thinking on the quality of students’ academic performance in grammar classes through identifying the reciprocal link between grammar and critical-creative thinking. We also seek to evaluate students’ grammatical competence through determining the extent to which they acquire and master the core elements of grammar through the core elements of critical and creative thinking. We are free of the bias to regard Grammar as a sentence-level phenomenon as this kind of view is incompatible with the notion of competency-based instruction. Through introducing an integrated approach, we propose teaching Grammar in a variety of contexts with the intent of exposing not only morphological and syntactical peculiarities of a certain grammatical phenomenon but also its sociopragmatic aspects. What we should call in mind from the outset is that creative thinking is divergent and critical thinking is convergent. Divergent (creative thinking) focuses on a multitude of choices and solutions since it opens up the mind guiding it through different directions and possibilities; convergent (critical thinking) involves exact information and data, analysis and one possible solution to the problem.

27. EU competition law

2020 ◽  
pp. 641-684
Author(s):  
Marios Costa ◽  
Steve Peers
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Core ◽  
Eu Competition Law ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the core elements of competition law in the European Union (EU). It provides a number of examples of the types of agreements covered by EU competition law and shows the dangers which may arise when independent undertakings come together to coordinate their activities to distort competition. The chapter reviews the impact of anti-competitive agreements on the internal market and focuses on the abuse of market power and controls over concentrations. Overall, the chapter discusses the provisions and enforcement of Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

scholarly journals Update on Improving Outpatient Antibiotic Use Through Implementation and Evaluation of Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s422-s422
Author(s):  
Karl Madaras-Kelly ◽  
Christopher Hostler ◽  
Mary Townsend ◽  
Emily Potter ◽  
Emily Spivak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Infectious Complications ◽  
Audit And Feedback ◽  
Antibiotic Prescribing ◽  
The Core ◽  
Medication Effects ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Appropriate Therapy ◽  
The Impact

Background: Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are a key target to improve antibiotic use in the outpatient setting. The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship provide a framework for improving antibiotic use, but data on safety and effectiveness of interventions to improve antibiotic use are limited. We report the impact of Core Elements implementation within Veterans’ Healthcare Administration clinics on antibiotic prescribing and patient outcomes. Methods: The intervention targeting treatment of uncomplicated ARIs (sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, and viral upper respiratory infections [URIs]) in emergency department and primary care settings was initiated within 10 sites between September 2017 and January 2018. The intervention was developed using the Core Elements and included local site champions, audit-and-feedback with peer comparison, and academic detailing. We evaluated the following outcomes: per-visit antibiotic prescribing rates overall and by diagnosis; appropriateness of treatment; 30-day ARI revisits; 30-day infectious complications (eg,, pneumonia,); 30-day adverse medication effects; 90-day Clostridium difficile infection (CDI); and 30-day hospitalizations. Multilevel logistic regression was used to calculate rate ratios (RR) with 95% CI for each outcome in the postintervention period (12 months) compared to the preintervention period (39–42 months). Results: There were 14,020 uncomplicated ARI visits before the intervention and 4,866 uncomplicated ARI visits after the intervention. The proportions of uncomplicated ARI visits with antibiotics prescribed were 59.17% before the intervention versus 44.34% after the intervention. A trend in reduced antibiotic prescribing for ARIs throughout the entire (before and after) observation period was evident (0.92; 95% CI, 0.90–0.94); however, a significant reduction in antibiotic prescribing after the intervention was identified (0.74; 95% CI, 0.59–0.93). Per-visit antibiotic prescribing rates decreased significantly for bronchitis and URI (0.54; 95% CI, 0.44–0.65), pharyngitis (0.76; 95% CI, 0.67–0.86), and sinusitis (0.92; 95% CI, 0.85–1.0). Appropriate therapy for pharyngitis increased (1.43; 95% CI, 1.21–1.68), but appropriate therapy for sinusitis remained unchanged (0.92; 95% CI, 0.85–1.0) after the intervention. Complications associated with antibiotic undertreatment were not different after the intervention: ARI-related revisit rates (1.01; 95% CI, 0.98–1.05) and infectious complications (1.01; 95% CI, 0.79–1.28). A potential benefit of improved antibiotic use included a reduction in visits for adverse medication effects (0.82; 95% CI, 0.72–0.94). Furthermore, 90-day CDI events were too sparse to model: preintervention incidence was 0.08% and postintervention incidence was 0.06%. Additionally, 30-day hospitalizations were significantly lower in the postintervention period (0.79; 95% CI, 0.72–0.87). Conclusions: Implementation of the Core Elements was safe and effective and was associated with reduced antibiotic prescribing rates for uncomplicated ARIs, improvements in diagnosis-specific appropriate therapy, visits for adverse antibiotic effects, and 30-day hospitalization rates. No adverse events were noted in ARI-related revisit rates or infectious complications. CDI rates were low and unchanged.Funding: NoneDisclosures: None

Soziale Disziplinierung im flexiblen Kapitalismus

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (136) ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
Tobias Wölfle ◽  
Oliver Schöller
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Municipal Level

Under the term “Hilfe zur Arbeit” (aid for work) the federal law of social welfare subsumes all kinds of labour disciplining instruments. First, the paper shows the historical connection of welfare and labour disciplining mechanisms in the context of different periods within capitalist development. In a second step, against the background of historical experiences, we will analyse the trends of “Hilfe zur Arbeit” during the past two decades. It will be shown that by the rise of unemployment, the impact of labour disciplining aspects of “Hilfe zur Arbeit” has increased both on the federal and on the municipal level. For this reason the leverage of the liberal paradigm would take place even in the core of social rights.

What is the Core Elements of Social Innovation?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 83-109
Author(s):  
SangMi Cho ◽  
JongSerl Chun ◽  
SoYoung An ◽  
JiYeon Jung
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Elements

Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-423
Author(s):  
John Joseph Norris ◽  
Richard D. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Feminist Inquiry

This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethnographies may not be so. The chapter indicates connections between duoethnography and a number of methodological concepts including the third space, the problematics of representation, feminist inquiry, and critical theory using published examples by several duoethnographers.

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